I guess this is one of those "I'm still alive, just don't have anything to say so have my face instead" posts...

It's summer... and everyone's been busy OR lazy. I've been more of the latter, and I honestly haven't done anything interesting. Ooops.
Well, I did go to Kuopio for Animecon to dance and teach parapara a bit, but that's about it.

Oh, I have some new stuff, most of that given to me! But I don't have pictures so you'll have to wait for a while so I can get my ass up and actually take some photos of them.
Also, I'll be gone for the weekend, so no updating OR taking pictures of stuff.

I did go see one of my long-time friends the other day, and actually managed to do something to myself. Look-wise.

 My outfit for the day. I WAS BOILING.

Natural-ish make-up. Also, I love this hat~

My aunt (one of them) bought this hat for me. First she put in on my head while joking "Well, here's a hat for you", but then she realised that it actually suited me so she agreed to pay it for me :D

I was trying to go for a bit of bohemian gyaru-look, but it's incredibly hard when your hair is RED. So I just put on my own twist like zat, and got told by people that I looked cute. AWESOME. 

Anyway, I really don't know what to write or tell, so have a picture of me looking... intellectual:

Don't worry, I took the sunglasses off when I went on stage.

Stay human, and blog ya later~

Accessories time!

I could say I'm sorry for NOT posting this last week like I said, but I've been very occupied with Band of Brothers and Suits and I gotta say...


So yeah. Not sorry for spending some quality time with some great TV shows x)
Anyway, here it is: my totally awesome post including some of my jewerly, like necklaces and earrings, featuring a random Harrod's plate.

Let's start with the bracelets.

Friis and Co. bracelet, gift from my friend Meri.

It's supposed to have a lock next to the heart-locket-thingy, but it got lost long time ago T_T

I still like it a lot, of course. I love Friis~

Self-made, given to me by my friend Jens.

I got this from Jens like 3 years ago... wow. Such a long time ago :'D
And that's actually when we met. We both happened to be in London for the same reason and he had a big bunch of these on his arm. I asked about them and he told he had made most of them himself and then gave this one to me.
It goes together really well with this as well:

Rainbow bracelet, bought from Helsinki Pride 2007 (?)

This one rarely comes off my wrist nowadays. When I got it, I used to wear it all the time.
Then I removed it for some reason and it took me ages to start using it again as much as I use it now. It's been on my wrist for at least a month now. 24/7.

Let's take some of my rings at this point:

Above: 4 rings from Bijou Brigitte. Below: 1 from Bijou Brigitte.

I very rarely use rings. The four colourful ones I bought from Liverpool when we went there for a day. They were just so cool and since they were metallic and together, I got them.
The plain one is plastic and used to have black zebralike stripes on it, which I've been trying to get off since I kinda want it to be just silver-ish. I think I got it from Bijou Brigitte in Kamppi...

I do have more rings, for example my secondary school class ring, which has barbwire design on it. I should have my elementary school class ring SOMEWHERE... but I haven't seen that in ages. It even had a dragon on it ;__;

Well, let's move on to earrings:

Friis and Co. earrings, present from Kiira and Maria.

Obviously some people know my small love for Friis... I'm not as bad as a certain someone who introduced me to the brand, but I'm slowly getting there.
I gotta thank her for introducing me to this awesome brand!!!

But yeah, three pair of earrings~ The black stars are my favourites, I have to admit. Not to say that I don't like the others, because I DO.

Black star earrings, bought from Seppälä.

So yeah... I kinda like stars. You'll probably notice it soon.

Butterfly earrings, a gift from Monica.

I also like butterflies :D Got these from Monica as christmas gift and I love to use them with my bohemian gyaru-ish shirt :3

Leaf earrings, a gift from my friend Christin.

These actually came in the same pouch with a necklace (that you'll be seeing a bit later, patience). Christin gave them to me as a christmas gift if I remember correctly. (When you have your birthday in December, it's sometimes hard to remember wether people gave a present for birthday or christmas...)

Off to the necklaces!

Leaf necklace, from Christin.

So this is the necklace I mentioned like a few seconds or minutes ago (depending how fast you're reading and IF you were reading).
They're made out of a material that makes a funny sound when they hit each other so it's hard for me to run or jump quietly while wearing this :D

Feather necklace, from Glitter.

This one some of you've seen before so not much to tell about it. Except that I lost one feather to a shop in Helsinki-Vantaa airport -_-

Friis and Co. necklace, bought from Friis' own shop in Turku.

When they still had one... I think it either moved or they quit... I do not approve of this.
But I love this necklace (a star!) ♥ I got it for myself as a birthday present in... 2008 or something.

Muffin necklace, bought from Seppälä.

I like these kind of necklaces :3

Horse necklace, also from Seppälä.

I actually have this one twice. I've been supposed to customise the other one, but haven't been assed to :'D
I like it~

Fake dog tag necklace, from Gina Tricot.

WITH an actual, very real, dog tag from Finnish army tank you very much.
I bought the fake dog tags 'cause I have a thing for Union Jack and I like dog tags.
I then attached my fathers dog tag to it. Just until I can find a better/another chain for it... it's been like that for years...

Snowflake necklace, present from Ida.

Once again a birthday present from a friend of mine :3 I like this, 'cause snow ♥
It even has those fake diamond thingies that make it shiny~

Star necklace, bought from JC.

STAAAAARSSS!!! ♥ And it's partly pink. What's not to like? :D


Aaand that, my friend, is about it. I do have WAY more accessories/jewelry (and I mean A LOT more), but I decided to show you my favourites and the ones that I have here with me.
Because showing everything would be... a lot.

Well, have a nice day, stay human and look at Elina and me being totally cool (I suggest you also check out earlyseedling that should easily be found through that video):



(Btw, terribly sorry but I'm too lazy to proofread this right now so I'll do it a bit later!)

The Fly was harrassing me ALL night.

So Animecon came and went and I have to admit that despite all the smaller and bigger problems we faced it was fun eventhough I had NO time to really go and see any panels I wanted to see.
As I mentioned before I was performing in the paraparashow, taught one paraparalesson and I also co-hosted the cosplay-competitions with my team mate Kiira. 't was busy.

Ach well. Let's get to the random stories again before I return to the weekend.

I am an amazing cook.

Last two weeks I spent mostly inside watching Supernatural since I had no money to actually take a bus anywhere.
There were moments when I left the house to take the dog out, or see a friend who lives in Kannelmäki OR one day when my cousin drove us to Myyrmäki to do some shopping.

That day I wore my cousin's new-old dress and my aunt's OLD (like 80's old) waist-belt :3

Which both are nowadays mine, btw x) My cousin bought the dress a while ago and THEN decided it doesn't suit her and gave it to me... don't mind if I do~
My task during the shopping trip was to just follow my cousin and her daughter and tell my opinion IF she asked. I was rewarded with Chinese food :D
I got a new necklace as well, because it was ridiculously cheap. Yay :3

So lovely~

Last... Monday? Tuesday? One day I made new nails for the week AND weekend.
I, once again, borrowed the colours from my cousin and used my own Gosh's French Manicure Base, Wet 'n' Wild's glitter and Top Coat.

Left hand on the left and right on the right x)

To be honest, the nails still look really good and I've been wearing them for a week now o_O
Yes, they endured through the weekend even though I was doing a lot of stuff.
Talking about the weekend, let me show you some pictures of few of my favourite things from the weekend:

Kiira with "yukata helvetti".

We both needed yukata for the cosplay-competition so we borrowed some from our friend Saara and team mate Sefie.
What Saara gave us was a huge Veikon Kone- plastic bag full of all kinds of stuff meant for kimono and even Hello Kitty earwarmers and some random socks...
The second I saw the bag I named it "yukata helvetti" (yukata hell).

Oh, but what is THIS!?

It is none other than:

Parapara Paradise PS2-game!

I've played the proper arcade game that you can see in the back cover of the game (the one with the girls) and the PS2-game before and I have to admit that the idea is GOOD but the execution NOT so much.
The sensors in both versions are just terrible and don't even work properly.
Aka if you dance you have to just wave your hands frantically or just put them to where they're supposed to be... not actually dance the choreography :'''D

And last but not least:

Dodge Dart Swinger '73

I'm a bit of a car geek sometimes... This one could also be a newer Dodge Dart, but the grille and the rear is too much of a '73 Dart so I don't think I'm that off saying it's the '73 :D

I don't really have anything else to tell right now so I'll get back to you some day.
Have fun and don't get burned in the sun!

"I'm told you came here in an automobile."

I was supposed to update today, but turned out I used all my time to watch Supernatural.
Again.

Aaanyhow, I'm leaving to Turku tomorrow for Animecon (gonna be performing, teaching parapara and stuff) and I'm gonna be there whole weekend... and probably without internet :I

So the update's gonna be pushed to next week probably!

You guys have a great weekend! :)

It's not what I am, it's who I am.

Hellou, hellou!

Weekend was prrretty busy.
Friday I spent mostly in Porvoo, but then in the evening I went to see Transformers 3, which was surprisingly good, with my friend.
Saturday was one of the highlights of this year, Helsinki Pride- parade that is.

Senaatintori before the parade started.

Basically every year one week is dedicated to the Helsinki Pride that starts on a Monday and ends in a Sunday.
During the week they have all kinds of events, panels and parties for the LHBTI(Q)- people (lesbian, homo, bi, trans, intersexual (and queer)) and for all the open minded who love in the colours of rainbow :3
The Parade is always on Saturday and it's usually the biggest event of the week.
This year we had over 7000 marchers.

So many *_*

Why do I love the Pride Parade? Well, because people are SO happy during the day.
Honestly, you'd have to see and experience it yourself to really understand what I'm saying, but it's just unbelievably great to see SO MANY people being happy, all dressed up and showing their true colours. It's a day when there's no need for anyone to hide who they really are and instead they can show it AND be proud :)

I had to leave early from the park where the Parade ended because my friend was throwing her graduation party and since I was invited it'd been rude NOT to go.
And I got to see her 2 year old son and spend some time with them and other friends so it was very nice :3

Sunday I travelled to Turku with my team mate Kiira for rehearsals.
It was a veeery long and intence day and after that my arms were KILLING me.
Whoever said that parapara is easy and not even a proper form of exercise were wrong.
My arms are still a bit tender from everything :'D
Waking up around 8am and getting back home around 10pm and dancing for over 5 hours (?) is a bit... sweaty x)

And that was pretty much my whole weekend... I think I slept for 12-15 during it. NOT nice I have to admit.

I did new nails today... but they failed a bit so I might try to fix them and then take a picture. Or I might wait till next week and do something completely different x)
ARGH. I made a really pretty make up today for myself, but I couldn't get a good picture of it (thanks to my phone...) ;__;

Not having a proper camera... Not cool, man.

That's the best picture of me from today and I took it way after our summer parapara lesson (during which I had sweated a lot)...
I just gotta try and do the make up again someday :3

One thing before I go and spend some time on TV shows again.

Peaches.

I've developed a great love for her music and just listen to her songs all the time. Like Fuck The Pain Away, I just listen to it like 3-5 times a day :'D



In a way she's like Lady Gaga. But difference is that Peaches actually makes good music.

But bye for now o/

So many birthdays... AGAIN!

I haven't updated in a while... and I don't actually have anything important to tell, so here you go! Have a few pictures and short stories about my past week and a half! x)

As some of you might know in addition to parapara, I dance in our Uni's Dance Society (= everything random that our captains decide to make us do, usually hiphop-ish), so last Friday we had out team photos taken.
So I woke up earlier than usually to straighten my hair and put some make up on, only to turn up looking like this:

I HAD eyelashes on, but I removed them when I got back home and before I took the photo :''D I realised after that, that I should've kept them on for a bit longer!
Anyhow, tools of trade that, quite frankly, look the same as always xD

♥ Gosh - pressed powder (02 So Natural)
♥ Lumene Natural Code Trio Eyeshadow (2 Beauty, I think...)
♥ M.A.C Fluidline Gel Eyeliner (Blacktrack, duh)
♥ Wet 'n' Wild eyeliner (black)
♥ M.A.C Mascara (Studio Fix Lash, black)
♥ M.A.C's eyelashes (as NOT seen in picture!)
♥ Lumene Arctic Definition Mineral Eyebrow Pencil (2 Grey Brown)
♥ M.A.C lipstick (Creme Cup)

Eye make up without the lashes.
A'yup. Looks like I used '2 Beauty' and all of its colours x)




The official group photo turned out like this:

We also took an unofficial, fun photo, but I am not going to post it here x)

Also, hail the power of photoshop. I'll tell you a secret... I did NOT have a Saints-hoodie in the picture :D
But that's all for Friday the 18th.

Btw, I bought a new top some time ago... I guess it was the same Friday, haha!

Crappy picture of my awesome blue leopard top! (£9.99 TK Maxx)

Back to business!

This Wednesday our v. captain/coach Chelsea was celebrating her birthday. Now, Wednesdays are usually social nights, meaning that different Uni societies get dressed up with different themes and go out being unnecessarily noisy and silly. That's the reason why Chelsea took over this week's social and made it her birthday social, theme: black cats and grey mice.
Of course she divided us so, that 1st and 2nd years were mice and 3rd years and commitee members were cats.

I had grey clothes so I just had to make some ears:

Excuse my super retarded face! Photo taken with flash and. I. hate. flash! xD

But you can see my awesome ears... the other is attached pretty poorly to my head.
I made them with grey and pink felt.
First I cut a piece of paper to see if it was the right size and shape. Then I cut the actual pieces of felt and sewed them together by hand. Quick and easy and everyone seemed to love my ears :3



My coursemate Cate also celebrated her birthday then, but with another theme, so it was pretty funny to go over, dressed as a mouse, when everyone else was either a goth or a chav :''D

Of course I headed to town while wearing my mouse costume because that's how we roll during socials! Luckily I went there with few Saints, so we didn't look that weird. Beside, the bus driver probably found it amusing to have three mice, two cats, a wrestler with pink thights and other random... characters in his vehicle.

My bff Ross had a birthday on Wednesday (like ACTUAL birthday. He was the only one of the three who actually had his birthday that day xD) so he was a bit weirded out when he saw me with the ears and whiskers :D
It took some explaining to make him realise that I was there also for the social and even after that he always made this weird face when he re-realised my ears xD

I ended up removing my ears earlier than I wanted to because everyone kept messing with them.

And I guess that's pretty much all of it.
Now TBBT o/

Whoo boy..!

I decided to update a few parapara related lists... that I've last updated February 11th 2010.

This is going to be a looong night x)

/EDIT (2.20am)

DONE! \o/

Alright!?

Erm. Iso SORRY, kun en oo päivittäny vajaaseen kahteen kuukauteen? :'D

Sori. Muuttostressiä oli tos syyskuussa ja sit syyskuu-lokakuu vaihde menny Worcesteriin ja yliopistoon totutellessa ^_^'

Joooka tapauksessa. Eipä ole tullut vielä paljon kirjoitettavaa mieleen, mutta voisinpas kirjoittaa gyaruista Worcesterissa (tai pikemminkin niiden olemattomuudesta xD) ja/tai paraparan "tekniikasta"... tai onko mitään, mikä joku haluaisi tietää, missä voisin ehkä auttaa? :D

Minäpäs palaan tästä... dataamisen pariin (japanin läksyt tein jo, viidessä minuutissa).